Gege Akutami’s JUJUTSU KAISEN manga is taking a break in the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. The official Twitter account for Jump released a statement announcing that the series will be going on hiatus for “about a month” due to the author’s poor health. …Read more »
The latest (but not last, despite its title) Rurouni Kenshin film is coming to Netflix in the US June 18. That’s pretty quick! The film only hit Japanese theaters April 23. Ostensibly, the streaming service will also be bringing us the actual final Kenshin film, …Read more »
The 34th and final Attack on Titan volume is officially out in Japan, so fans and the publisher alike are celebrating the end of a major 12-year run. One of the ways the party is getting started is with an online exhibition that looks through …Read more »
The original Saint Seiya manga ran 1986-1990 and spawned multiple spinoff series. It was just announced that the current manga spinoff, Saint Seiya: Next Dimension – The Myth of Hades, is nearing its climax in its new “season.” This was reported by Weekly Shonen Champion, …Read more »
GTO: Paradise Lost will conclude the Great Teacher Onizuka (GTO) manga franchise, according to creator Tohru Fujisawa in an interview over the weekend. Fujisawa began publishing GTO: Paradise Lost back in 2014. For a while Crunchyroll made the manga available in America, and now Kodansha …Read more »
In March Digital Manga Publishing announced that its popular yaoi series Twittering Birds Never Fly, which had been on hiatus, would resume publication. Volume 4 had come out in January, and the company teased the release of volumes 5 and 6 but did not give …Read more »
Father’s Day is June 20, and Shonen Jump has a page set up on its site where you can help Anya from Spy X Family come up with a surprise gift for her adopted dad. The campaign coincides with the release of the seventh volume …Read more »
Kotaro Yamada’s manga adaptation of Riku Misora’s High School Prodigies Have It Easy Even in Another World light novel series officially sees the light at the end of the tunnel. The latest issue of Square Enix’s Young Gangan magazine revealed that the manga is about …Read more »
The final volume of Hajime Isayama’s Attack on Titan manga hits shelves in Japan on June 9, so promotion is out in full force. One of the most impressive advertisements is a massive 45.6-meter-long LED panel display that’s been put up in Shinjuku Station, thanking …Read more »
After joining Twitter, Inuyasha mangaka Rumiko Takahashi shared her work schedule for a few days, revealing that she basically gets three-hour naps between pulling all-nighters. Since then she has shared more details on her schedule for doing a chapter of manga. According to her, each …Read more »
The mobile manga subscription app Mangamo now has more than 1,200 manga volumes from Kodansha available after the publisher contributed an additional 800 or so. The newly supplied volumes include ones from Tokyo Revengers, Fire Force, FAIRY TAIL, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, …Read more »
Lilyka, DMP’s yuri imprint, is having its first online live event, involving mangaka Mintaro. The event takes place June 25th 2021 6PM – 7PM (PST) and consists of three parts: Introduction, drawing session and Q & A, and announcement. https://twitter.com/LilykaManga/status/1399792660282368002 There are two ways to …Read more »
Inuyasha creator Rumiko Takahashi recently set up a Twitter page and encouraged fans to ask her questions. When asked about her daily schedule, Takahashi gave a detailed reply . . . and showed she barely gets any sleep at all.
The Re:ZERO – The Frozen Bond OVA is currently being adapted into a manga by Minori Tsukahara, and the series is about to come to an end. As revealed in the second part of the manga’s 14th chapter, the series will end in the upcoming …Read more »
The trial is now over for 29-year-old Romi Hoshino, the alleged administrator of notorious manga piracy site Manga-Mura. Hoshino was arrested in 2019 on a slew of copyright violations, and the Fukuoka District Court found him guilty today in Japan. The sentence comes down to …Read more »
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